That worked, STRING is not listed as one of the variable types in the developer guide, is it new?
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of William W. Fisher Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 9:34 AM To: InterMapper Discussion Subject: Re: [IM-Talk] Convert hexadecimal to string Levinson, Don A. wrote: > I tried this and instead of converting the hexadecimal to an ASCII > string, I just get the hexadecimal output in string format, > i.e. instead of converting 01 15 33 30 43 6F 61 74 65 64 5F 50 61 70 65 > 72 to "30Coated_Paper" it converts it to " 15 33 30 43 6F 61 74 65 64 5F > 50 61 70 65 72" There is no function to convert a hexadecimal representation of a string to ASCII. Based on what I've read, I sense that you probably don't want to convert the original Media Name string to hex, you want to leave it as ASCII, then crop off the first two bytes. Let me know if that doesn't work, though. TRAY1_MEDIA_NAME, 1.3.6.1.4.1.11.2.3.9.4.2.1.4.1.3.3.1.4, STRING, "Media Name" PAPER_NAME, (substr($TRAY1_MEDIA_NAME, 2)), CALCULATION, "Type of media" Regards, Bill Fisher Dartware, LLC > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of William W. > Fisher > Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 5:28 AM > To: InterMapper Discussion > Subject: Re: [IM-Talk] Convert hexadecimal to string > > Levinson, Don A. wrote: >> I am trying to convert a hexadecimal SNMP variable to a string and > then >> extract a substring. >> String variables in the HP PML MIB are prepended by 0x0115 so they > come >> across as hex, I want to read the string, strip off the first two > bytes >> and then print the output. >> >> TRAY1_MEDIA_NAME, >> 1.3.6.1.4.1.11.2.3.9.4.2.1.4.1.3.3.1.4, HEXADECIMAL, "Media > Name" >> PAPER_NAME, (substr($TRAY1_MEDIA_NAME, 2)), >> CALCULATION, "Type of media" > > In the function invocation of substr, put the first argument in quotes. > Without the quotes, the argument is being passed > as a numeric argument. > > PAPER_NAME, (substr("$TRAY1_MEDIA_NAME", 2)), CALCULATION, "Type of > media" > > This is a known problem with the function calling system; there are no > typed variables, so you have to hint in the > function call via quotes that you want to pass the argument as a string. ____________________________________________________________________ List archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/intermapper-talk%40list.dartware.com/ To unsubscribe: send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ____________________________________________________________________ List archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/intermapper-talk%40list.dartware.com/ To unsubscribe: send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
